Wednesday June 26th, She Shreds Magazine and K-Records will be presenting a show at ADX featuring Priests, Palo Verde, Hooded Hags, and Older Women.
Come have a beer, and listen to some of PDX and DC’s finest metal, punk, and garage bands. Hang out in the shop, take a tour, and get to know some folks in the ADX community. Cover is five bucks, you can buy pre-sale tickets on our website.
This coming Wednesday, June 19 from 6:30 to 8:30PM, Crowd Supply will be having a crowdfunding workshop (with beer from Ninkasi) at ADX.
Join us at this free event, open to all, and hear Crowd Supply’s Director of Projects (and ADX member) Josh Lifton sharing tips and tricks from the trenches of preparing, launching, and successfully funding your product. This workshop will give you an overview of how you can use Crowd Supply to launch a successful product campaign, from planning and production, to marketing and fulfillment. The Crowd Supply team will be on hand to talk with you about crowdfunding in general and answer your specific questions. Register here.
Join us, and see for yourself why Core 77 says “Crowd Supply is Kickstarter for product designers.”
This Saturday at 6PM, ADX will host Deep PDX.
Founded in 2012, Deep is a dance party and all-styles battle that happens monthly up and down the west coast with spot dates around the country. All-styles means the competition is open-format. From krump to contemporary, all dancers are welcome. Competitors freestyle against one another to a mix of music that can be Justin Timberlake one moment, then Nina Simone the next.
All the various dance disciplines come together at Deep to exchange with one another, enjoying both the vibe of a party and the structure of competition. All battles are crowd-judged and the format changes each month. Attendees will experience a rotation of some of the countries best DJs and producers, visual installations and a host of surprise guests and performances.
Doors open at 5PM, and the event is all ages. Of course, we’ll be pouring beer from Ninkasi Brewing. There’s a$5 cover w/RSVP, and $15 without.
Have you ever wondered how ADX can work together with you to be more successful? We’ve started a series of profiles on ADX members and how the ADX community has helped them achieve their goals.
Buck Feero joined ADX’s fabrication team shortly after moving to Portland in August 2012. The Reno native got his start doing finish carpentry for a friend’s father, eventually following that job to Denver to do subcontracting work for Lowe’s and other clients.
“I worked in cabinetry when I first moved up here,” Feero says, “so that gave me the confidence to know that I can build just about anything out of wood.” He got some contracts for midcentury modern-inspired furniture (George Nakashima is a particular favorite) and left the cabinetry shop to focus on custom work. He quickly moved from assisting to taking on project lead roles and added welding to his skill set.
Another member of the ADX community, Grant McGavin of Heartwood, pointed Feero to an opening at metal shop Deform. Feero got the job and has been working as a fabricator there since February 2013. He’s helped make tables for Starbucks, workstations for Portland data visualization firm Pericopic, and architectural features for Northeast Portland development the Bindery.
Finding ADX, Feero says, “has been somewhat life-changing. I’m not sure I would have been as successful as quickly without ADX. It was somebody taking a chance on me that put it in my head that I can do the things I want to do on a daily basis.”
Father’s Day is coming up quick!
Did you get anything for dad? We know you’ve put it off and put it off, and now here we are, a week away, and you got nothing! Maybe this year you should get dad a membership to ADX. Currently, memberships are 50% off, or free with any intro class (until June 15th, day before father’s day). Take a look at our class schedule, sign dad up for one, and get him a free membership at the same time. Or, shoot us an email at info@adxportland.com, and let us know you want to get dad a 50% off membership.
This Sunday’s Metal Mass at ADX is free for your dad, as well. Register for Metal Mass, and bring your dad for free! Bond over some cuttin’ and weldin’ in the metal shop.
Ladies, we also have the Femme Fabrique woodworking series starting this Wednesday in the wood shop. The class series will teach you usable and hands-on woodworking skills, including equipment operation, joinery, cut sheets, and materials purchasing. All materials for this class series are included in the price! Get signed up now.
If you’re a lady-maker and not interested in the woodworking series, stop by this Thursday for ladies night. Fabrication projects for ladies night are a little more basic, and the mood is a bit more relaxed, but it’s no less fun.
Damien Farwell has been a member of ADX since December 2011.
After studying history in the Midwest, Damien returned to his native Seattle, where one day he happened to be in a gallery featuring furniture makers. Captivated by the furniture displayed there, he applied to be a furniture maker’s apprentice through the gallery. One day, a phone call came out of the blue, and Damien found himself on the phone with a gruff voice that said “So, you want to work for me?”
That phone call began Damien’s apprenticeship with with Evert Sodergren, a fourth generation Scandinavian furniture craftsman. Sodergren, a pioneer of studio furniture often referred to as the “dean” of Pacific Northwest woodworkers, proved a great mentor for Damien.
Following his work with Sodergren, Damien’s work really evolved while running production for Seattle-based Henry Built. After learning that wenge, a beautiful African dark wood, is endangered due to over-exploitation, he made a commitment to build more ethically conscious furniture.
Now, Damien’s furniture is a personal statement. His furniture embodies his views on what it means to be an environmentally sustainable maker, and blends these views with Shaker and Japanese inspired aesthetics. Using traditional joinery and non-toxic finishes, Damien’s pieces are meant to be heirlooms, passed from one generation to the next.
You can see Damien’s bench made from post-industrial waste in the lobby of ADX during the month of June.
We turned 2 Saturday, and, naturally, things here got a lil’ wild. Take a look:
Studio Moe: from NYC to Portland opened in the gallery
Intro to Arduino and Mechatronics was a hit
Party hats
Party hats
Watermelon
More watermelon
Graphic designers and watermelon
Cake!
Birfday cake!
Wedding cake
Gifts
Music
Our peoples
Brats (ADX made food cart!)
Fifty Licks
Double fist Fifty Licks
Triple fist Fifty Licks and Ninkasi beer and a cigarette (AKA way too many good things)
Games
New peeps
Old peeps
Temporary tat
Dance moves
Can I take a moment to say that I’ll be signing all Square app signatures this way from now on?
Tiny Booth (ADX made!)
More Tiny Booth
Even more Tiny Booth
See photos from the Tiny Booth photo booth at ADX’s birthday bash here.
Thanks to Ninkasi, Ocio, Studio Moe, She Shreds, Modern Marriage, Those Willows, Fifty Licks, ADX staff for making everything happen, and to every one of our friends, for coming out.
And remember, in honor of our second birthday, between now and the 15th of June we’re still offering 50% off unlimited memberships, and free unlimited memberships when you sign up for an intro class. Sign up for classes online, or shoot us an email at info@adxportland.com for a 50% off membership.
For First Friday on June 7, ADX will feature Kivett Bednar’s prismatic landscapes. Bednar makes each painting from about fifty layers of color in bands that grow gradually darker towards the edges of the canvas. A graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Bednar will play traditional blues, accompanied by a drummer and harmonica player, at the First Friday show.
Bednar says creating the abstract landscapes is like manufacturing, which makes it a good fit for ADX, where he’s been working all month to prepare for the show. “The process was designed so I could do many paintings at once,” he says, “and the design would be the important thing. And the quality.”
In applying the layers of acrylic paint to his handmade canvases, Bednar says he cultivates a mediative mindset. “Each one of these layers is a little Zen garden for me,” he says.
Kivett built all of the canvases in our wood shop
Process
Process
and more process
Join us on Friday, see fruit of Kivett’s hard work, and have a Ninkasi beer with us while we listen to some of Kivett’s tunes.
Are you ready?
Nah, I don’t think you’re ready.
Oh, you think you are? Alright, alright. Well, let’s do this then.
ADX is turning two, and we about to get crazy up in this shop!
CUT THAT CAKE WITH A SAW
Beer!: Ninkasi brewing
Food: Ocio bratwurst foodcart
Music: Country Trash will perform, plus open mic with She Shreds Mag and Kivett Bednar
In the art gallery: Studio Moe: New York City to Portland
Games: Cornhole, thumb-wrestling championship, nail-hammering contest, water balloon fights, watermelon seed spitting contest, lemon jousting, wall ball, paddle ball, basketball, boat races.
Classes: Arduino and Mechatronics workshop.
Other antics: Car wash, dog wash, general rad-ness.
Membership representatives will be here for tours and to get you signed up for your 50% off one month membership, or intro classes with one month free membership. Anyone who signs up for a membership will be entered to win t-shirts from local designers.
Basically, it’s going to be a great time for everyone. Weather will be nice (75 degrees!). It’ll be a family friendly event, so bring the kids! All are welcome, all day.
See you Saturday!
Have you been to Pioneer Courthouse Square recently?
Today is the first day in the two week run of this year’s festival of flowers installation at Pioneer Square. Designed by architecture firm Lango Hansen, this year’s design incorporates the theme Tattoo Portland. Until June 12th, the Square will be ‘inked’ with a giant heart composed of nearly 20,000 begonias, impatiens, marigolds, zinnias, and pansies.
The installation is made up of a tattoo heart containing P O R T L A N D lettering. Lango Hansen came to ADX for CNC services for the lettering.
CNC tech Geordie making huge letters
Some kind of CNC ghost in the machine.
Shop master/tool wizard Seamus wrastlin’ with giant letters.
Get to the Square and check out the installation–from up high, it looks great, and at ground level the flowers smell wonderful.
Email us at cnc@adxportland.com with you CNC needs!
